| Thank-You Hol & Bryan. I was afraid that what I had heard was correct. Another piece of our shared history bites the dust. I guess the big semi's hauling grain (wheat and corn) killed it off.
As a youth I was introduced to the autobiographies/memoirs of Ralph Moody. He wrote 8 books about growing up from age 8 in 1906 to when he married in 1922. In the last two books he was in Decatur County Kansas and the action centered around the now almost non-existant town of Cedar Bluffs, Kansas, a stop on the old St Francis Branch of the Q. His stories covered the transition of the west from horse to car. He shipped livestock on the Q, delivered grain to elevators on the Q and furnished meat to the Q commissary department when part of the branch had to be rebuilt following a flood. His books illustrated how intimately farm life of that period and the rails were intertwined.
The two books that involved the Q were "The Dry Divide" and "Horse of a Different Color".
I was able to visit that area in 1987 and there were still some buildings from that era including a grain elevator. There is a picture of the Cedar Bluffs elevator from 1996 at this link, " http://www.grainelevatorphotos.com/photogallery.html". That elevator is now gone also. The Cedar Bluffs Q station is supposed to still exist. It is purportedly being used as an outbuilding on a local farm.
On Feb 1, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Bryan Howell via Groups.Io wrote:
The full caption, along with the photo, will be appearing in the next Zephyr.
Bryan J. Howell BRHS VP Publications
Kirby:
I wrote a considerably longer caption than appears with the photo from Jim Ehernberger's collection that is the December photo in the 2019 BRHS calendar and shows passenger local No. 189 pulling up at the Atwood, Kan., depot about 1915. The caption was
way too long for the space available and had to be cut substantially. The portion that was cut, among other things, noted that the Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway (owned by OmniTRAX) had been operating the branch since the 1980s but discontinued operations
in 2015 and in 2017 applied to abandon the 130-mile branch, and it no longer appears on NKC's system map.
Hol
I can't remember where I heard this; but it was to the effect that the Shortline that was operating on the old CB&Q St Francis Branch had ceased operations on the line and was going to pull up the tracks.
Do any of you have any information on this?
Thanks
Kirby
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